Nuclear quantum effects on the high pressure melting of dense lithium

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Feng, Yexin ^a   Chen, Ji ^a   Alfè, Dario ^b   Li, Xin Zheng ^a,c   Wang, Enge ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; LITHIUM; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CLOSE PROXIMITY; FREE-ENERGY DIFFERENCE; HIGH PRESSURE MELTING; NUCLEAR QUANTUM EFFECTS; PATH-INTEGRAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION; TWO-PHASE SIMULATION;

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 84923806545     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4907752     Document Type: Article

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